Beaker is more autocratic than many Red Hat open source projects (since we're upstream of an internal testing system rather than of a product we ship to customers), something I refer to as being open-source-but-not-open-governance.
I'd love for Beaker's capabilities to grow to a point where it makes sense for people without a direct tie to Red Hat to be using it and to start complaining about the relatively closed governance model. With any luck, I'll be able to start further down that road at Flock later this year, but that's highly dependent on getting travel funded.